Colorado turnout exceeds 1.9 million, with hours still left to vote

More than 1.9 million Coloradans had already voted by noon today, according to Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler.

Gessler said this morning that even before Election Day polling places opened at 7 a.m., Colorado's county clerks had reported that nearly 1.9 million people had either returned their completed mail ballots or voted in person at designated early-voting polling places those clerks provided between Oct. 22 and Nov. 2.

Shortly after the noon hour, that number had grown to 1,943,630 ballots cast, including additional mail ballots returned and Election Day voting by that point, the Secretary of State's Office reported.

The noontime totals of voting completed at that point included 136,073 ballots cast by Boulder County voters, 82,256 cast by Weld County voters and 140,957 cast by Larimer County voters, according to Gessler's noon-hour report.

Mail-ballot voters can stop their completed ballots off today, if they haven't already done so, but those ballots have to be returned to the voters' county clerks by 7 o'clock tonight. Polls will be open until 7 p.m. today for Election Day voters.

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